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title: "Wax tapers, indeed!" said the lamp, "I have never yet had these, no… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Wax tapers, indeed!" said the lamp, "I have never yet had these, nor is it likely I ever shall. Who acts: Wax tapers. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 70

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"Wax tapers, indeed!" said the lamp, "I have never yet had these, nor is it likely I ever shall.

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**Who acts:** Wax tapers · **What happens:** say, not have, be · **To what, where:** lamp, these, taper · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wax tapers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:133:70
# text = "Wax tapers, indeed!" said the lamp, "I have never yet had these, nor is it likely I ever shall.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Wax	wax	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tapers	taper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
16	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	ccomp	_	_
18	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	21	cc	_	_
21	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	expl	_	_
23	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	26	advmod	_	_
26	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Wax tapers | the lamp |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **have** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Wax tapers *= taper* | these |  |  | yet |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Patient |
| 3 | **be** *in a quote* | present |  | taper |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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